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exboyfil

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1. And that is a problem?

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Thu Jan 28, 2021, 12:11 PM

Jan 2021

So who gets the national debt if Scotland and Northern Ireland depart?

What is the likelihood of Wales also departing? I haven't heard much about them.

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Johnson Says an Independent Scotland Would Risk Losing the Pound [View all] left-of-center2012 Jan 2021 OP

And that is a problem? exboyfil Jan 2021 #1

Scotland would join the Euro. OnDoutside Jan 2021 #3

That was my point exboyfil Jan 2021 #5

I don't think the vast majority of English politicians have any understanding of Scotland T_i_B Jan 2021 #8

That's for sure, T_i_B. Denzil_DC Jan 2021 #9

They don't have an understanding of themselves. OnDoutside Jan 2021 #11

The Welsh independence movement lags far behind the Scottish version. left-of-center2012 Jan 2021 #4

And yet he supported brexit and didn't know SharonClark Jan 2021 #2

Euro Pound Dawson Leery Jan 2021 #6

"Euro Pound" ? left-of-center2012 Jan 2021 #7

"even pro-independence campaigners, including Scotland's leader Nicola Sturgeon, agreed at the time Denzil_DC Jan 2021 #10